Hi guys Chris here with Xiaomi's Mi Mix 2S, so this is just a revised model the
S models always are their just revisions based on the original design tweaking
and improving things slightly so with this model here what they've done is
they've put dual cameras on the rear of it now unfortunately that comes at the
cost of an ugly camera bump but what we do gain is two times optical zoom on one
sensor both of them at 12 megapixels and the main sensor has dual pixel phase
detection autofocus and has 1.4 micrometer sized pixels on it so it
should be a very decent camera something similar to the redmi note 5s camera that
i reviewed so the focus will be Rocksteady we won't have any more focus
hunting issues like we did with the mimics - that was probably my biggest
complaint of that mobile phone so the design is basically the same they're
slimmed it down by about a millimeter I think the bezel on the top something
like that so it's going to look almost identical but we do have finally
wireless charging on a ShowMe mobile phone this is in fact their first mobile
phone to have it which seems kind of crazy considering this is 2018 so we
have Android 8.1 on here that's running me UI nine point five which is basically
the way you've the skin you could call it from Xiaomi and the latest chipset so
it's Qualcomm Snapdragon 805 and the battery life is probably going to be
about the same because it's still the same capacity three thousand four
hundred million hours so let's get this one here unboxed and check it out in
greater detail so normally I have these boxes factory sealed but on this one
here this seller has already installed Google Play on here for me now I didn't
have some trouble with the redmi note 5 so I wasn't actually too fussed about
him doing that so in the box you can see oh we just got like this
card I think correct me if I'm wrong like this is like a Chinese proverb or
something they put at the top I don't understand or read Chinese and there I
have to use Google Translate for that later on so let's have a quick look at
the charger yet so this one will support Qualcomm quick charging with us so this
is rated to 12 volts 1.5 amps and a two-prong source as the
Chinese star I'm going to have to use an adapter for that and you see right here
is our type CK that's a black one of course so right
here it's just pointing out those changes I mentioned one of them I didn't
actually mention was the AI camera so what that is this going to automatically
detect scenes for you and adjust the camera settings accordingly I hope
that's going to work at least in our favor so here in the back here you can
see it does support NFC that's gonna be right in this area here and the two nano
Sims that their support so there's no microSD card support on this and then
lastly in here we have the sim tray tool of course and a case oh and we're going
to need this too so that's the 3.5 millimeter adapter Centaurs there of
course and this case so it's not quite as good as the one we got on the first
Memex which was like a fake leather style this is just a smooth plastic hard
plastics Darwin here you can see it does cover at least the buttons and it is
nice and thin so 1.97 grams that's definitely leaning towards the heavier
side for a 5.9 inch mobile and the thickness so it is eight point four
millimeters without the camera hump and with the camera bump there that is now
on nine point two almost nine point two millimeters so checking out the back of
the device here we've got ceramic just like the other models here and the
fingerprint readers in the same exact location so the edges of these are very
nice nice curb on and the fit and finish the build quality of this is excellent
it's definitely premium we've got the mimics design by Xiaomi they're in gold
so the gold trim continues around the camera module here which I don't
particularly like it's all coarse personal preference here but the camera
bulge is a little bit ugly it's a shame they couldn't have put that streamlined
within the case and it didn't stick out because it looks a lot like they're rid
me note 5s camera bolts you can see right here very very similar the layout
there but of course there's a difference with the sensors and the optics so this
has got two times optical soon the one right at the bottom here I'll jewel tone
LED flash and then the main 12 megapixel sensors that one at the top so the
flagship next to the budget readme note 5 definitely stands
out as having a much better build quality here because we've got the
ceramic on the back of course this has metal on the back the fingerprint
readers are pretty much in the same location there we've got plastic on the
top of this one and there's no plastic on the top of this so it's metal the
frame around the outside here so that's going to be easy to damage if you do
drop it and we do have a secondary mic then you can see those two antenna
strips but this is really well done very very nice those edges they are
pretty much perfect they're they build up this to more antenna lines along the
bottom then we have a type C pod of course the loudspeaker and the main
microphone for your voice calls now what is missing a course is a 3.5 millimeter
headphone jack it's really sad that we don't have that on here up the top this
little tiny slit here is where our earpieces and down the bottom here you
can see that front 5 megapixel camera so no changes here this is exactly the same
as the Memex 2 and just a little quick size comparison here so it's actually
smaller than the redmi note 5 even though the note 5 has the same size
screen it's it's also 2160 by ten eighty five point nine inches you can see that
it is in fact a little shorter here and just for reference I have the monster
six point four inch me max two right here which you can see as you know just
massive compared to both of those there so I won't be going through the setup on
this one here because the sellers already installed Google Play on there
so you probably also set it to English just get that screen protector off of
course
so the ROM is all in English it's already been set up and there is Google
Play Store so that's good so because this is the Chinese version we've got a
lot of this crap on here so most of this I think it's around about 90% of this
junk we can't uninstall thankfully but do wait for a global ROM if you don't
want to have any Chinese apps or characters showing up on the ROM so it
is running me UI should be 9.5 hopefully he has not installed a hacked ROM on
this or anything like that sorry I've already gone straight past it
at the top here yes me a 9.5 stable that's the vision there and of course
I'll check for updates this gives you a better idea of those bezels or lifts and
right in top basil's they are quite slim and good thing is we don't have an ugly
knotch yet but knowing show me they will probably be stupid enough to copy Apple
and add a notch on the Memex 3 I really hope they don't do this though now my
vision is me you weigh nine point five stable as I mentioned before but it's
only running Android 8.0 and not 8.1 and for those of you guys out there that
want to know that sensor information and even the IPS panel so it's using a Sony
AMX 363 as I mentioned in the start and a Samsung s5 k3 m3 as the secondary
axillary sensor with that two times optical zoom the front camera is from
Omni vision and this is exactly the same as the meet max - unfortunately so the
display is looking good but it's not flawless on my unit here I can see some
tiny little bit of shadowing just on the edges here and if you can pick that up
just a little bit along here so it's not entirely perfect but overall not bad and
yes there is a wireless update that's just come through so this is to optimize
system performance and fix bugs I'll apply this right now so here's what the
phone looks like in the case and I must say it does look actually quite nice and
as it does fit it perfectly of course coming from the manufacturer really nice
very sleek and covers it all perfectly and the ports at the bottom those are
open for your valid speaker your microphone and it was it a little bit
more grip - so it won't be as slippery but it's not the most gru piest of cases
I have felt so camera protection you can see is good one handy thing too is if
you're moving from another Xiaomi phone then you can just use the me mover app
and what that does is just wirelessly send through backup that is then
restored on the new phone now just very quickly I wanted to check out how pop G
performs this is on the high settings with the high frame rate and you can see
that's pretty smooth there's perhaps maybe a tiny little too stutter now and
then but it's running really well and really this is probably one of the
better experiences that you will be able to get on
Android with this chipset of course and only running in 1080p and not something
like 1440p well I didn't quite get my chicken dinner so here is the antutu
score against the redmi note 5 so this one has a snapdragon is six three six
and this of course is the eight four five and you can see there's a massive
difference the Snapdragon 805 in this Memex 2's is an absolute beast here when
you look at these synthetic benchmark scores and not anything that just using
it as well you notice the performance either Snapdragon 805 of course compared
to the 636 it's just so much faster this is a really quick phone so even though
the camera is down the bottom in the chin there we still have face unlocking
and I'll just show you how fast it is so it's pretty quick not too bad and
remember it's not gonna be as secure as your fingerprint
now the fingerprint reader I've already set that up I'll show you how quick that
is easy literally touch it and then it turns on so I place my finger on there
to on it is really really quick just as fast as the redmi note 5 and this one's
popped up a few times that people have asked me can you check and see if it
supports treble the good news is it does support it but it's only system a
partition so not both a and B which would be better so time for a little
loudspeaker test is so it has got a ticking read out speaker in the earpiece
well that doubles up as the same thing and that is mostly just treble and mensa
boosting up what we get coming out of the speaker down on the bottom here so
in my opinion the loud speaker sounds okay but it's definitely not a premium
one it's lacking a little bit and at a hundred percent volume it will actually
distort a little bit I'll give you a sample of it now
and finally moving on to the camera so this is the stock camera app of course
and there are some changes here as you can see right here we have this AI
button so that's going to automatically detect the scene at the moment I don't
have anything for it to look at but it will go outside and it will take photos
of flowers and things with and without that sitting which I'll show you shortly
in my camera preview with all my samples and everything so we've got HDR of
course right here different filters and that there is our settings so different
modes we've got video of course now I wanted to point out here with the video
mode that there's some interesting changes here that they've made so we now
have video h FR which is of course high frame rate and you're at 720p at 240
frames per second and then we also have 1080p at 240 frames per second so this
is really good obviously there's something that the snapdragon 845 is
helping shall we bring this feature to the phone and not only that the image
stabilization can be enabled on 4k video and you see the video quality here right
up to 4k or UHD also known as so that's good to see there and some other little
settings in here as well there now the front-facing camera of course when you
use it you're going to have to flip it around to turn it up that way and that
as normal and we don't have so many settings here at least at while on video
we've got nothing that we can choose from but if I go back into the photo
mode then we've got of course that dips effect now so it can do that with the
front-facing camera just like the rid me Note 5 and the filters and here are the
settings we have there so not a lot there you've got your magic mirror and
group selfie as well tries to get everyone looking good uses various
different photos since that is them all together with a group selfie mode
another thing that she'll me has changed up a little bit here is the manual
camera mode here so what is great to see as they've added manual focus but you've
also got focus peaking and this is a feature that you often see in DSLR
cameras you can see right now where it's showing that little those tiny little
dots showing up so that's where your focus is peaking and that just gives you
an idea of where exactly you are in focus so now you can see that standing
out how the ticks they're in the backgrounds go on all red so that's
where your focus is and this is good so we've also got control care of none
of the focus white balance we also have your shutter rate right there that goes
right up to 32 seconds so you need a tripod for that one obviously to get
those streaky shots at nighttime ISO setting which also goes right up to 1600
there and then you can choose between the telephoto lens or the wide-angle
lens so basically the main sensor all that two times optical just remember
that I do have a little pot plant here in the studio so let's test out the AI
camera I'm going to enable it now and see what happens how long it takes well
that didn't take long at all so we go it's put a little leaf there so it knows
it's looking at a plant and basically I could see a really that looks like it's
just bolstered up the brightness and perhaps the saturation so I'll take a
photo with it and now without it and we'll have a look at the difference so
this is the rear camera now shooting it in 4k and you notice that there's no
more focus breathing is because the dual pixel phase detection autofocus has
fixed that and is working really well the focus no problems it is very quick
to lock on and you cannot switch over to the secondary camera once you start
recording so you actually got no option to go to the second camera with the two
times optical zoom I think it's because it's probably gonna be a little bit too
shaky so I'm gonna walk along here now we'll test out the stability now I do
have the electronic image stabilization enabled
and you can see it's doing a reasonably good job here of this so let's have a
look at the front-facing camera now so this is video now on the front facing
cameras that it's overexposing I mean just look at the sky there you should be
able to see some clouds and it's not doing a particularly good job it's
pretty average at best and you see that then the auto exposure is commentating
you can see some of those details there on the sky and the same goes for photos
as well that it will over expose
okay guys so this is looking like a really decent phone just like there me
mix2 was the face unlocking is really fast and quick the fingerprint reader
really really quick as well that's literally only a bits and a half a
second or something it's really fast the performance of it so the Snapdragon 805
now in my use and time on with it it's really really quick I see no lag no
starter nothing especially with only like basically like a 1080p display that
this is branding that is very fast and fluid you're gonna have no issues with
performance there it is really top of the line now I feel that Xiaomi should
have done a lot more with this phone I mean why didn't they put a 1440p display
in here why do we have a camera bump with the dual cameras I feel that could
have perhaps made them live flush it would have looked a little bit better
there now we don't have a 3.5 millimeter headphone jack or a micro SD card slot
so remember you can use bluetooth and you can go and get the 256 gigabyte
model as well if you need a lot of internal storage and that kind of out
rules having the need for micro SD card I feel with 256 gigabytes unless your
music collection is even bigger than that the other thing too is do I feel
that the cameras on them yeah that is a big improvement okay don't get me wrong
over the me mix 2 the focus is the main improvement here and the video quality
because of that so you're not going to have the focus hunting but it's not a
huge mess of step up I feel is still compared to other flagships I feel you
know they've got some work to do with the low-light performance still and that
regard there now the AI for the camera so what it's really doing is just
changing the saturation of the photos or tweaking the contrast it's not really
doing that much and is it creating a better photo in my opinion not really no
I don't think it is so I I doubt I would ever actually use a feature I already
just for this review here so speaking of reviews make sure you check out my
review of the redmi note 5 I feel that this one's got a better front-facing
camera even though it over exposes it's 13 megapixels captures more detail and
of course the location is in the proper place here up the top
this has FM radio and in IR transmitted is something that
this mobile phone doesn't and this is only right about 220 us this is
something for about 550 us a massive difference and really I do like this
phone a lot so my review of that is right up here make sure you check that
out and I do hope to see you back with my full review of the mimics 2s which
will be in about a week's times I hope to catch you there and that will cover
battery life charging time wireless charging time and everything else I
encounter and using it for a week or so thank you so much for watching this
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